Film Making Workshop 2024, at Unschoolers Ecovillage, Swaraj University, Udaipur

Swaraj University is happy to announce the Swapathgami Film Making Workshop at Udaipur, Rajasthan from January 30th to February 4th, 2024, to experience creative hands-on learning, basic skill development in filmmaking, storytelling, personal growth and much more.

About The Film Making Workshop:

The Film Making workshops aim to provide a hands-on, immersive basic orientation to the art and techniques of film-making while aligning with Swaraj University’s principles of self-designed learning and community building. Here are some aspects of film-making workshop:

1. Experiential Learning: The workshops focus on practical, hands-on learning experiences, allowing participants to engage directly in various aspects of film-making, such as researching, scripting, shooting, editing, and post-production.
2. Community Engagement: Workshops at Swaraj University foster a sense of community and collaboration among participants. This environment encourages peer learning, teamwork, and collective creativity.
3. Guidance: The workshops will be facilitated by a few different independent / Swapathgami filmmakers, who provide guidance, mentorship, and feedback throughout the learning process.
4. Focus on Self-Exploration: Swaraj University’s ethos involves encouraging participants to explore their own creativity, passions, and values within the film-making process.
5. Project-Based Learning: Participants will engage in creating short films or projects during the workshop. These projects could serve as a culmination of the skills and knowledge gained throughout the program.

Who can Join?

We are looking for dynamic, creative, sincere people to be a part of this workshop. We have room for 30 people this year, so please get in touch as soon as possible, if you’re interested.

No prior film-making experience is necessary, nor are any prior qualifications or degrees.

Apply now: https://forms.gle/fyZ9zFi1GwMEPRkN8

Limited Seats Available!!

Schedule:
We start the workshop on Tuesday, January  30th, 2024, 10:30 am and on Sunday 4th February we will have our closing until 5:00 pm in the evening.

Contribution: 

Like many places across India and around the world, Swaraj University is experimenting with rethinking our lifestyle and our relationship with ourselves, our work, our resources, and our communities. We are questioning, challenging and experimenting with our conditioned notions of money. So, we welcome you to join our experiment and explore your relationship with money. However, it is important we all contribute and take care of the needs of the place and meet the actual expenses for hosting such a workshop. The suggested contribution for this workshop is ₹12,000 per person inclusive of food, stay and workshop facilitation. By contributing this amount (or more), you would also partly be helping those who find it hard to access these spaces due to financial constraints. Money should not be a barrier to your attending. Please ask for a partial scholarship if you need it.

About the host:

Swaraj University was born in 2010 as a holistic learning programme for youth. The focus of the programme is on self-designed learning, community living and on social entrepreneurship within the context of ecological sustainability and social justice.  This self-designed learning process invites learners to identify their hearts’ visions and engages them in developing the skills, relationships and practices they need to manifest those visions. We are in service to many different learners from metro-city youth to prison inmates to tribal farmers to dropout girls to unschooling families. The main campus also currently hosts the Unschoolers Ecovillage. Swaraj University is part of the Ecoversities Alliance.

There is NO degree or certificate required to join Swaraj University, and we do not give any degrees after the course. We are proud of being totally unrecognised and un-deemed, since we believe in creating portfolios based on one’s own experiences rather than degrees and certificates as a proof of one’s education. We are also part of the campaign, Healing Ourselves from Diploma Disease, a national campaign to say NO to degrees and certificates and promote a better evaluation framework such as that which is based on experience and  portfolios. 

Our  Tapovan Ashram Campus is a beautiful, tranquil, green, 15 acre campus located in an isolated,  scenic valley between two mountain ranges, 15 kms from Udaipur city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The Ashram has an organic farm, herb gardens and eco-living. Away from the noise and pollution of city life, it offers a serene and beautiful environment for reflection, self-exploration and healing.  There are a lot of opportunities for nature and wild-life lovers for walks and trails, and for some bird-watching or snake spotting.  One gets to witness a variety of flora and fauna thriving in the hills surrounding the Ashram, including foxes, hyenas, and leopards. Built within this greenery are the staying facilities, common kitchen, dining room, library, meditation hall, swimming pools, nature cure facilities, cow shed etc.

Please feel free to forward this invite to your friends, family, networks that you are part of and people you feel would love to be part of such a workshop.

Please call Harsh at +91 9958311401 or write to him at [email protected] for any details.

Regards, 

Team Swaraj Uni.